What Are You Willing To Do?
Last week we started the <a href="http://www.newseasonumc.org/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/applogic+ftcontentserver?GXHC_gx_session_id_FutureTenseContentServer=f0709ab7db144f1b&pagename=faithhighway/10000/8000/461NE/floating2">brand new message series "What We Believe"</a> by talking about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley">John Wesley</a>. Wesley rode 250,00 miles on horseback and preached 40,000 sermons in his lifetime so that others might come to know the love of God through Christ and follow Jesus. <br /><br />What are we willing to do? While not necessarily called to ride 250,000 miles on horseback or preach 40,000 sermons are we willing:<br /><br /><ul><li>To give up having to know everybody in worship and allow our churches to grow?</li></ul><ul><li>To give up "our" pew?</li></ul><ul><li>To give up our wants, desires and preferences in terms of worship style so that our worship style might change and resonate with those who are not yet following Jesus?</li></ul><ul><li>To move the location of our church in order to reach more people?</li></ul><ul><li>To gain all we can, save all we can, and give all we can in order to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world?</li></ul><ul><li>To let someone else lead?</li></ul><br />Jesus said those who want to gain their life must first lose it.
